"what is here is more substantial than the material on Journey or Myths and Legends, which can be attributed largely to the composers' contributions."" Lisztomania (album) Lisztomania is a 1975 progressive rock soundtrack album by Rick Wakeman for Ken Russell's film ""Lisztomania"", a biography of Franz Liszt. Some tracks feature The Who's Roger Daltrey singing lead vocals. The album was later upgraded as ""The Real Lisztomania"" by Wakeman because he was dissatisfied with the original release. When Allmusic rated the album they said ""The soundtrack to Ken Russell's movie provided Wakeman with a canvas upon which to work his magic"
"Daltrey played the lead role, and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for ""Best Acting Debut in a Motion Picture"" and appeared on the cover of ""Rolling Stone"" magazine on 10 April 1975. Afterward, Daltrey worked with Russell again, starring as Franz Liszt in ""Lisztomania"". He worked with Rick Wakeman on the soundtrack to this film, writing the lyrics to three songs and also performing these, as well as others. The Who continued after the death of their drummer Keith Moon in 1978, but tension continued to rise as Daltrey felt that new drummer Kenney Jones was the wrong"
"the No.1 spot and played to full houses for over a year. Two months before ""Tommy"" was released (in March 1975), Russell started work on ""Lisztomania"" (1975), another vehicle for Roger Daltrey, and for the film scoring of progressive rock keyboardist Rick Wakeman. In the film, the music of Franz Liszt is stolen by Richard Wagner. Wagner's operas then put forward the theme of the Superman.""Tommy"" and ""Lisztomania"" were important in the rise of improved motion picture sound in the 1970s, as they were among the first films to be released with Dolby-encoded soundtracks. ""Lisztomania"", tagged as ""the film that"
"Lisztomania Lisztomania or Liszt fever was the intense fan frenzy directed toward Hungarian composer Franz Liszt during his performances. This frenzy first occurred in Berlin in 1841 and the term was later coined by Heinrich Heine in a feuilleton he wrote on April 25, 1844, discussing the 1844 Parisian concert season. Lisztomania was characterized by intense levels of hysteria demonstrated by fans, akin to the treatment of celebrity musicians today – but in a time not known for such musical excitement. Franz Liszt began receiving piano lessons at the age of seven from his father Adam Liszt, a talented musician"
"Sviatoslav Richter in the 1952 film ""Glinka – The Composer""; by Will Quadflieg in Max Ophüls's 1955 film Lola Montès; by Carlos Thompson in the 1955 film ""Magic Fire""; by Dirk Bogarde in the 1960 film ""Song Without End""; by Jeremy Irons in the 1974 BBC Television series ""Notorious Woman""; by Roger Daltrey in the 1975 Ken Russell film ""Lisztomania""; and by Julian Sands in the 1991 British-American film ""Impromptu"". Franz Liszt Franz Liszt (; , in modern usage ""Liszt Ferenc"" ; 22 October 181131 July 1886) was a prolific 19th-century Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, music teacher, arranger, organist,"
"Tomatoes website lists the film as having a 76% favorability rating, based on the critiques of a sampling of 17 reviewers. The CD soundtrack composed and conducted by Bernard Herrmann is available on Music Box Records label. Disc one presents ""The Film Score"" and disc two, ""The Original 1976 Soundtrack Album"". Obsession (1976 film) Obsession is a 1976 psychological thriller/mystery film directed by Brian De Palma, starring Cliff Robertson, Geneviève Bujold, John Lithgow, and Stocker Fontelieu. The screenplay was by Paul Schrader, from a story by De Palma and Schrader. Bernard Herrmann provided the film's soundtrack prior to his death"
"the simple, touching pleasures denied the audience by the current antiromantic spirit of the movies."" Other reviewers routinely praised the stylish cinematography by Vilmos Zsigmond, and Bernard Herrmann's beautiful, highly romantic score was one of the most acclaimed in his distinguished career, earning him a posthumous Academy Award nomination (the composer died in December 1975, a few hours after completing the score of Martin Scorsese's ""Taxi Driver""). The National Board of Review named ""Obsession"" one of the Top Ten Films of 1976. But several critics complained that the film was all too clearly a mere homage to ""Vertigo"", without being"
"Lisztomania (song) ""Lisztomania"" is a song by the French band Phoenix from their fourth album ""Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix"". It is their second single from the album, although a music video of the song was released before ""1901"". The music video shows them performing live and going outside to find a blimp like the one shown on the album cover. The song helped the album to be their most successful following their previous hit, ""1901"". It peaked at #11 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart in the US and as well as #15 in Belgium. Phoenix released a remix"
"Dreams of Love – Liszt Dreams of Love – Liszt (, also known in English as ""The Loves of Liszt"") is a Hungarian-Soviet epic musical/drama produced and directed by Márton Keleti, based on the biography of the Hungarian composer and pianist Franz Liszt. While the movie was criticized for some of its historical inaccuracies, its epic scope and intense scenes of virtuoso musical performances won wide praise and has been credited with affecting the cultural landscape of the 1970s Eastern Europe. An epic film about the Hungarian virtuoso pianist and composer Franz Liszt. He is an international star giving performances"
"on many of Wakeman's future albums and tours. During its stop in Rio de Janeiro, Wakeman met Ronnie Biggs, one of those involved in the 1963 Great Train Robbery. The two went drinking, played football, and exchanged a gift of shirts, including one that Biggs allegedly wore during the robbery. In late 1975, Wakeman composed the soundtrack for ""Lisztomania"", a biography film about composer Franz Liszt written and directed by Ken Russell. Wakeman appears in the film as Thor, the god of thunder. A few years later, he recalled the album in a more negative light as ""there was hardly"
"took the opportunity to add his trademark religious and sexual imagery. The film had an innovative Oscar-nominated score by John Corigliano. The film enjoyed moderate financial success, and scored with critics who had otherwise dismissed Russell's work. Roger Ebert, who had given ""The Devils"" ""zero stars"", and had panned Russell's early composer portraits (he did, however, give three stars to both ""Tommy"" and ""Lisztomania""), gave it his highest rating for Russell's work (three-and-a-half stars), praising it as ""one hell of a movie!"" Russell's bad tempered behaviour on set, including a row with Chayefsky himself, caused him to become a virtual"
"The Mirror (1975 film) Mirror (; known in the United States as ""The Mirror"") is a 1975 Russian art film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. It is loosely autobiographical, unconventionally structured, and incorporates poems composed and read by the director's father, Arseny Tarkovsky. The film features Margarita Terekhova, Ignat Daniltsev, Alla Demidova, Anatoli Solonitsyn, Tarkovsky's wife Larisa Tarkovskaya and his mother Maria Vishnyakova. Innokenty Smoktunovsky provides voiceover and Eduard Artemyev the incidental music and sound effects. ""Mirror"" is structured in the form of a nonlinear narrative. It unfolds as an organic flow of memories recalled by a dying poet (based on"
"Obsession (1976 film) Obsession is a 1976 psychological thriller/mystery film directed by Brian De Palma, starring Cliff Robertson, Geneviève Bujold, John Lithgow, and Stocker Fontelieu. The screenplay was by Paul Schrader, from a story by De Palma and Schrader. Bernard Herrmann provided the film's soundtrack prior to his death in 1975. The story is about a New Orleans businessman who is haunted by guilt following the death of his wife and daughter during a kidnapping-rescue attempt. Years after the tragedy, he meets and falls in love with a young woman who is the exact look-alike of his long dead wife."
"Psychomania Psychomania (a.k.a. The Death Wheelers) is a 1973 British horror-cult film starring Nicky Henson, Beryl Reid, George Sanders (in his final film) and Robert Hardy. Tom Latham, an amiable psychopath and the leader of a violent teen gang, enjoys riding his motorcycle with his girlfriend and loves his mother. His gang dabble in black magic and call themselves ""The Living Dead"". In a similar vein, his mother and her sinister butler get their kicks out of holding séances in their home. With her help (and following in his father's footsteps) Tom returns from the dead. One by one, he"
"for Morris Stoloff and Harry Sukman and the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture (Musical). Song Without End Song Without End, subtitled The Story of Franz Liszt (1960) is a biographical film romance made by Columbia Pictures. It was directed by Charles Vidor, who died during the shooting of the picture and was replaced by George Cukor. It was produced by William Goetz from a screenplay by Oscar Millard, revised (uncredited) by Walter Bernstein and based on screenwriter Oscar Saul's original 1952 script (uncredited). The music score was by Morris Stoloff and Harry Sukman with music by Franz Liszt,"
"of emotion that accompanied Liszt and his performances. Heine wrote a series of musical feuilletons over several different music seasons discussing the music of the day. His review of the musical season of 1844, written in Paris on April 25, 1844, is the first place where he uses the term Lisztomania: Musicologist Dana Gooley argues that Heine's use of the term ""Lisztomania"" was not used in the same way that ""Beatlemania"" was used to describe the intense emotion generated towards The Beatles in the 20th century. Instead, Lisztomania had much more of a medical emphasis because the term ""mania"" was"
"Leopold Stokowski Leopold Anthony Stokowski (18 April 1882 – 13 September 1977) was an English conductor of Polish and Irish descent. One of the leading conductors of the early and mid-20th century, he is best known for his long association with the Philadelphia Orchestra and his appearance in the Disney film ""Fantasia"". He was especially noted for his free-hand conducting style that spurned the traditional baton and for obtaining a characteristically sumptuous sound from the orchestras he directed. Stokowski was music director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the NBC Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, the"
"ილარიონი; 1960), ""I Can See the Sun"" (მე ვხედავ მზეს; 1962), ""The Sunny Night"" (მზიანი ღამე; 1967), ""Don’t Be Afraid, Mother!"" (ნუ გეშინია, დედა!; 1971), ""The White Banners"" (თეთრი ბაირაღები; 1973), and ""The Law of Eternity"" (მარადისობის კანონი; 1978). His works are remarkable for simplicity and lyricism of the prose, humor, and melancholy coupled with optimism. He was awarded the Shota Rustaveli State Prize in 1975 and the Lenin Prize in 1980. Most of his major works have been dramatized and/or filmed. He died in Tbilisi and was buried in the city, at the Mziuri Park, which he founded in"
"was also dedicated to her. D'Agoult had three children with Liszt; however, she and Liszt did not marry, maintaining their independent views and other differences while Liszt was busy composing and touring throughout Europe. Their children were: In 1876, she died in Paris, aged 70, and was buried in Division 54 of Père Lachaise Cemetery. She was portrayed by Geneviève Page in the 1960 film ""Song Without End"", opposite Dirk Bogarde as Liszt, by Klara Luchko in the 1970 film ""Szerelmi álmok – Liszt"", by Fiona Lewis in the 1975 Ken Russell film ""Lisztomania"", opposite Roger Daltrey as Liszt, and"
"Became of Jack and Jill?"" (1972). He then appeared in ""Stardust"" (1974), and ""Three for All"" (1975). In 1975, he played ""Cousin Kevin"", Tommy's vicious cousin, in ""Tommy"", and portrayed Richard Wagner in ""Lisztomania"" (1975). In 1976, he embarked on a short-lived but high-profile pop career, with three Top 20 hits in the UK Singles Chart ""Reggae Like It Used To Be"", ""Dancing with the Captain"", and ""Grandma's Party"", the last two of which reached the Top 10. He released the single ""Heaven On The 7th Floor"" in 1977. This only just reached the UK Top 40, but reached number"
"that year was starring in the smash hit film ""Oklahoma!"", adapted from the famous Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. The ""Los Angeles Times"" called it ""an exciting, vigorous attraction."" The Last Command (1955 film) The Last Command is a 1955 Trucolor Western film directed by Frank Lloyd starring Sterling Hayden, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Richard Carlson, Arthur Hunnicutt, Ernest Borgnine and J. Carrol Naish. In 1835, Jim Bowie realizes that there were uneasy disputes between the Mexican government and the American immigrants who've settled in Texas. Dozens of American men, including Stephen Austin have been arrested for supposedly igniting rebellions against the"
"Wonderland"" (Paul Mazursky, 1970), ""Beware of a Holy Whore"" (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1971), ""La Nuit américaine (""Day for Night"")"" (François Truffaut, 1974), ""All That Jazz"" (Bob Fosse, 1979), ""Stardust Memories"" (Woody Allen, 1980), ""Sogni d'oro"" (Nanni Moretti, 1981), ""Planet Parade"" (Vadim Abdrashitov, 1984), ""La Pelicula del rey"" (Carlos Sorín, 1986), ""Living in Oblivion"" (Tom DiCillo, 1995), ""Women"" (Peter Greenaway, 1999), ""$"" (Grigori Konstantinopolsky, 1999), ""Synecdoche, New York"" (Charlie Kaufman, 2008), and ""The Great Beauty"" (Paolo Sorrentino, 2013). The Tony-winning 1982 Broadway musical, ""Nine"" (score by Maury Yeston, book by Arthur Kopit) is based on the film, underscoring Guido's obsession with"
"The Magic Flute (1975 film) The Magic Flute () is Ingmar Bergman's 1975 film version of Mozart's opera ""Die Zauberflöte"". It was intended as a television production and was first shown on Swedish television on 1 January 1975, but was followed by a cinema release later that year. The work is widely viewed as one of the most successful films of an opera ever made, and as an unusual item in the director's oeuvre. Although Bergman carried out the project in his mid-50s, it was rooted in his youth. He first saw ""The Magic Flute"" at the Royal Opera in"
"Liszt was ""compensatory, an illusory substitute for the lack of agency and public participation among Berliners"". The opposing positive view of Lisztomania was that it was a response to Liszt's great benevolence and charity. This view was explained as follows: Lisztomania Lisztomania or Liszt fever was the intense fan frenzy directed toward Hungarian composer Franz Liszt during his performances. This frenzy first occurred in Berlin in 1841 and the term was later coined by Heinrich Heine in a feuilleton he wrote on April 25, 1844, discussing the 1844 Parisian concert season. Lisztomania was characterized by intense levels of hysteria demonstrated"
"Kismet (1955 film) Kismet is a 1955 American musical-comedy film directed by Vincente Minnelli and produced by Arthur Freed. It was filmed in CinemaScope and Eastmancolor and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It is the fourth movie version of ""Kismet"". The first ""Kismet"" was released in 1920, the second ""Kismet"" in 1930 by Warner Brothers, and the third ""Kismet"", starring Ronald Coleman and Marlene Dietrich, was released by MGM in 1944. The 1955 film is based on the successful 1953 musical ""Kismet"", while the three earlier versions are based on the original 1911 play by Edward Knoblock. In old Baghdad, an impoverished"
"romantic comedy film ""Strictly Ballroom"" (1992), the romantic tragedy ""William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet"" (1996), and ""Moulin Rouge!"" (2001). Following the trilogy, projects included ""Australia"" (2008), ""The Great Gatsby"" (2013), and his television period drama ""The Get Down"" for Netflix. Additional projects include stage productions of Giacomo Puccini's ""La bohème"" for both the Australian Opera and Broadway and ""Strictly Ballroom the Musical"". Luhrmann is equally known for his Grammy-nominated soundtracks for ""Moulin Rouge!"" and , as well as his record label House of Iona, a co-venture with RCA Records. Serving as producer on all of his musical soundtracks, he also"
"Fifty-Fifty (1925 film) Fifty-Fifty is a lost 1925 American silent drama film starring Hope Hampton, Lionel Barrymore, and Louise Glaum. Directed and produced by Henri Diamant-Berger for the production company Encore Pictures, ""Fifty-Fifty"" is a remake of a 1916 Norma Talmadge film also titled ""Fifty-fifty"" that was directed by Allan Dwan, who wrote the original story. The film was exhibited the week of January 3, 1926, in Los Angeles, at the Hillstreet Theatre, which featured both vaudeville and movies. American millionaire Frederick Harmon (played by Lionel Barrymore) is in Paris, France, for business and pleasure. While enjoying the Parisian night"
"(1975), ""Forever Young, Forever Free"" (1975), ""Order to Assassinate"" (1975), ""Medical Story"" (1975), ""The Art of Crime"" (1975), ""Truman at Potsdam"" (1976) (playing Stalin), ""The Big Bus"" (1976), ""Paco"" (1976)., ""Voyage of the Damned"" (1976), ""Crash!"" (1976), ""The Sentinel"" (1977), ""Zoltan, Hound of Dracula"" (1977), ""Exo-Man"" (1977), ""Who Has Seen the Wind"" (1977), ""The Rhinemann Exchange"", ""The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover"" (1977), ""Fedora"" (1978) from Billy Wilder, ""The Amazing Captain Nemo"" (1978) (in the title role), and ""The Swarm"". He guest starred on ""Starsky and Hutch"" and ""Tales of the Unexpected"". During the Bicentennial, Ferrer narrated the world"
"include Mitch Weissman, Joe Pecorino, Les Fradkin, Justin McNeill, Randy Clark, Reed Kailing, P. M. Howard, and Bobby Taylor. After three years of production USA Video Productions took an interest in making a film version of the ""Beatlemania"" stage show. After a brief contract negotiation, ""Beatlemania: The Movie"" began production in late 1980 (shortly before the murder of John Lennon). Directed by Joseph Manduke, the film's cast featured Mitch Weissman (bass guitar; ""Paul""), David Leon (rhythm guitar; ""John""), Tom Teeley (lead guitar; ""George""), and Ralph Castelli (drums; ""Ringo""). ""Beatlemania: The Movie"" was released in the summer of 1981 and received"
"Poolman) together with John Trapman, and directed by double Grammy Award-winner Bob Smeaton (""The Beatles Anthology""), with music produced by Eddie Kramer (Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin), and features original footage shot in 1970 by Academy Award-winning cinematographer Peter Biziou (""Mississippi Burning"", ""Pink Floyd – The Wall "", ""The Truman Show""). The original 1970 footage was filmed by director Frank Cvitanovich. A DVD release followed the film's 2003 theatrical run. ""Festival Express"" was staged in three Canadian cities: Toronto, Winnipeg and Calgary, during the summer of 1970. Rather than flying into each city, the musicians traveled by chartered Canadian National Railways"
"winner of two French César Awards for Best Sound and Best Cinematography. A digitally restored version of the film was released by The Criterion Collection in June 2011. Black Moon (1975 film) Black Moon is a 1975 French-West German avant-garde film directed by Louis Malle and starring Cathryn Harrison, Joe Dallesandro, Therese Giehse, and Alexandra Stewart. Shown at the 1975 New York Film Festival, it was distributed in the United States by 20th Century Fox. Despite the film's location in France the film's dialogue is in English. The surreal ""mise en scene"" centers on Lily, a confused teenager (Cathryn Harrison)"
"ultimately premiered in October 2012 at Hartford Stage in Hartford, Connecticut. The production, directed by Darko Tresnjak, transferred to the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, California in March 2013, and then opened on Broadway in 2014. Freedman won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for this musical. Sources: ""The New York Times"", filmreference.com Robert L. Freedman Robert L. Freedman (born July 27, 1957) is an American screenwriter and dramatist. He is best known for his teleplays for ""Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"" (1997) and """" (2001), and for his Tony-winning book and lyrics of ""A Gentleman's Guide"
"MacDonald Fraser. Reed had an uncredited bit-part in Russell's ""Mahler"" (1974), was the lead in ""Blue Blood"" (1973) and ""And Then There Were None"" (1974), produced by Harry Alan Towers. His next project with Ken Russell was ""Tommy"", based on The Who's 1969 concept album ""Tommy"" and starring its lead singer Roger Daltrey. ""Royal Flash"" (1975) reunited him with Richard Lester and George MacDonald Fraser, playing Otto von Bismarck. He had a cameo in Russell's ""Lisztomania"" (1975). Reed appeared in ""The New Spartans"" (1975) then acted alongside Karen Black, Bette Davis, and Burgess Meredith in the Dan Curtis horror film"